Nurse volunteering with Mercy Ships

In January 2024 she will be going to live on board the largest civilian hospital ship in the world, the Global Mercy which will be berthed in Freetown, Sierra Leone. There she will be volunteering as a nurse where she will be helping to look after the patients on a ward after they have had their surgery.

Mercy Ships are a charity that provides free surgeries and humanitarian care around Africa. On the African continent, 93% of the population have no access to safe or affordable surgery when they need it. Globally, each year 18.6 million people die from the lack of surgical care. Mercy Ships is dedicated to strengthening countries’ health care capacity through training, as well as meeting individual immediate needs.

. [see link below for more information on the mercyships]

https://mercyships.org.nz/